From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Gnus overrides.texi and WEBHACKDEVEL
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 09:18:37 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739o2bjci.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 831v3ma532.fsf@gnu.org
On Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:12:01 +0200 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
>> Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 08:21:18 -0600
>> Cc: ding@gnus.org
>>
>> Now, overrides.texi is for Gnus manuals overrides: settings we may want
>> to propagate to all our manuals. So I think it makes sense to have it,
>> just not the way I did it with shell redirection. I renamed it to
>> gnus-overrides.texi and it can be used for things we want to use in all
>> the Gnus manuals in the future. I hope that's OK with everyone; if not
>> it's easy enough to pull that include out.
EZ> I don't necessarily see a problem, but I don't understand why you need
EZ> a .texi file for these overrides. At least the "@set FOO" part of
EZ> those overrides can be easily handled by add -DFOO switch to
EZ> MAKEINFO_OPTS.
It's for general text variables which are awkward in Makefiles,
especially if we need many. I can see many uses in the Gnus manuals.
EZ> More generally, what is a user supposed to do if she does want to put
EZ> something on gnus-overrides.texi? That's a versioned file, so "bzr
EZ> status" will show it as modified, and there's still a danger of having
EZ> it committed inadvertently. How is this better than just modifying
EZ> gnu.texi or any other file directly?
The user wouldn't touch them, they are for the developers. I guess
"gnus-includes.texi" would be a less confusing name?
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-05 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-05 9:35 Revision 103117 on the Emacs trunk Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-05 9:52 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2011-02-05 11:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-05 12:16 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2011-02-07 18:29 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-08 3:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-08 8:00 ` Peter Münster
2011-02-08 8:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-08 8:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-02-08 9:06 ` Peter Münster
2011-02-08 9:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-08 14:33 ` -DWEBHACKDEVEL for Gnus (was: Revision 103117 on the Emacs trunk.) Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-08 15:23 ` -DWEBHACKDEVEL for Gnus Peter Münster
2011-02-05 13:08 ` Revision 103117 on the Emacs trunk Andreas Schwab
2011-02-05 14:21 ` Gnus overrides.texi and WEBHACKDEVEL (was: Revision 103117 on the Emacs trunk.) Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-05 15:12 ` Gnus overrides.texi and WEBHACKDEVEL Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-05 15:18 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-02-05 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-05 16:01 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-07 19:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-07 19:19 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-02-07 19:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-06 6:49 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-02-06 10:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-06 14:40 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-02-06 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-06 17:52 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-02-06 18:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-06 19:20 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-02-06 21:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
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